Ernest Hemingway Quotes
We would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.
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A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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I feel like I'm the luckiest person alive. I'm always waiting for that phone call: 'Hello. We've just realized you're really a no-talent hillbilly. We've made a horrible mistake and we'd like you to leave now.'
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It's the fans that need spring training. You gotta get 'em interested. Wake 'em up and let 'em know that their season is coming, the good times are gonna roll.
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You know what black hatred women feel toward me as soon as they see me, until I return inside my shell, they use every possible weapon. As soon as a generous man tries to help me out, a woman is here to hold his arm and prevent him from acting.
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You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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Life is a dead-end street.
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There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.
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You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.
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Whatever I think the song sounds like is what I'll name it. It's a feeling thing; it's not logical at all.
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Americans are very easygoing people. If the added attention and great visibility that I have been able to generate can help open doors and expose more Chinese to American values and the American way of life, that is great.
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It was really a very small company when I started and it changed very rapidly during those first periods.
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I have a lot of men who will say to me, 'I don't read books by women, but I like you.'
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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The most obvious purpose of college education is to help students acquire information and knowledge by acquainting them with facts, theories, generalizations, principles, and the like. This purpose scarcely requires justification.
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There are two things that go on in art. There's getting to the essential material and a design that's inherent in the use of material, and also an essential level of expressiveness, a precise way of saying something rather than a complicated way.
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I'm a politician. I'm not going to get into a whole range of scientific argument with scientists.
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The classic epic fantasy is good versus evil, underdog against power.
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I'm most impressed by the Russian writers, so I love reading the works of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Another author who has informed the way I think is the French philosopher, Blaise Pascal.
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We would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.
